Improvement in attachments for ratlins



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PATENT ()FFIG'E.

JOSEPH P. MANTON, OF PROVIDENCE, RHODE ISLAND.

IMPROVEMENT IN ATTACHMENTS FOR RATLINS.

Specification forming part of Letters Patent No. 116,848, dated July 11,1871.

To all whom it may concern:

numbers being used in all the figures to denote .the same part.

This invention consists in combining a clamp to clasp the shroud with asocket-strap to attach the rope or chain to that forms the ratlin, theends of the strap being put between the ears of the. clamp and. held bya bolt that passes through both and closes the clamp around the shroud.

Figure 1 shows atop view of the devices. Fig. 2 is a front elevation ofthe same applied to a section of a shroud.

A is the clamp, which may be made of iron, bronze, or other suitablematerial, and should be of proper size to just slide over the shroud Dwhen the bolt (0 is not screwed up tight. 0 is a socket-strap orconnection, which may be made of the same material as the clamp. It hasa hole near each end to receive the bolt (1, which is provided with ascrew-nut on one end to draw the ears of the clamp together. A hole orsocket is madefiin the middle of the strap 0, through which the end ofthe ratlin O is put and knotted on the inside between the two arms ofthe strap, the edges of the hole through which the ratlin passes beingrounded over to prevent the ratlin from chafing.

The manner of application is well shown in Fig. 2, where it isrepresented as applied to the shroud, the nut on the bolt to beingscrewed up so as to close the clamp tight to the shroud. The strap 0,being free to turn on bolt a, will accommodate itself to the position ofthe ratlin when the latter is depressed, so as not to cause it to drawhard over the strap end, and thus prevent it from wearing ofl at thatplace.

Some of the advantages derived from this improvement are durability,security, facility or application, and saving of time over the old planof seizing each ratlin to its place, as these may be kept on hand readymade and applied at short notice.

I claim-- The combination of the clamp A, socket-strap O, and ratlin O,substantially as and for the purpose specified.

JOSEPH P. MANTON.

\Vitnesses:

J. RUssnLL FIELD, BENJAMIN ARNoLD.

